mild autistic 6 year old.x

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Nicki wrote: »

Perhaps look at it as "why would we want to keep him at a school which up to now has failed to meet his needs" rather than a school which doesn't want him? From your initial post about him, it sounds like you believe his difficulties to be mild, and in that case what have the school been doing to allow him to get this far in the school without knowing his colours, alphabet, etc? If they had been focusing on his needs and working towards meeting them, it wouldn't have come as a surprise to you at the end of KS1 that he hadn't mastered this, and you would have known what strategies they were using with him in school and supporting him at home with those too.

My experience of a special school for DD is overwhelmingly positive, and my DS (her older brother) who is mainstream all the way was incredibly jealous of what a lovely school his sister went to, and always wanted to transfer I hope once you have got used to the idea, you will find his new school a change for the better too.

sadly in july last year they actually changed his one too one and i was very upset about this , plus they didn,t even inform me until the day before. Set it all up behind my back. I also personally feel this has taken a backward step because of this change. I called learning education and they stated they had no say what the school change in relation to one to one.

I am slowly feeling positive and as previously stated it isn,t so much changing the school it is the way we as parents have been treated.

Mind we asking but what are your dd,s needs?xx

Nicki

DD is autistic and has learning difficulties which were described as mild to moderate when she was first diagnosed at age 2 but are now being described as severe. She also has uncontrolled epilepsy which obviously impacts on her learning too

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Nicki wrote: »

DD is autistic and has learning difficulties which were described as mild to moderate when she was first diagnosed at age 2 but are now being described as severe. She also has uncontrolled epilepsy which obviously impacts on her learning too

Hi again

Thanks for getting back to me.

How are you all doing as a family?? I am struggling to be honest with you. My hubby is the strong one in the family. How old is dd now?